Leslie Uggams
| Leslie Uggams | |
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| Born | May 25, 1943 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1950s-present |
| Spouse | Grahame Pratt (1965-present) |
| Awards | Theatre World Award 1967 Hallelujah, Baby! TV Land Anniversary Award 2007 Roots |
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| http://www.leslieuggams.com | |
Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943, New York City) is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her work in Hallelujah, Baby! and the miniseries Roots. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Singing
Uggams started in show business as a child in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on Beulah. Uggams made her singing debut on the Lawrence Welk Show and was a regular on Sing Along with Mitch, starring record producer-conductor Mitch Miller. In 1960, she sang, off-screen, "Give Me That Old Time Religion" in the film Inherit the Wind. Her records "One More Sunrise"(an English-language cover of Ivo Robic's "Morgen", 1959) and "House Built On Sand" made Billboard Magazine's charts.
[edit] Television
The Leslie Uggams Show, a television variety show, added to her list of credits and a lead role in Roots, as Kizzy. She made guest appearances on such television programs as Hollywood Squares, Fantasy, The Muppet Show, and Magnum, P.I.
[edit] Films
Uggams also starred in the 1975 film Poor Pretty Eddie, in which she played a popular singer who, upon being stranded in the deep South, is abused and humiliated by the perverse denizens of a backwoods town.[citation needed]
During the 1980s she appeared in Blues in the Night.
[edit] Stage
Uggams succeeded replaced Patti LuPone as Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center revival of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the Cort Theatre. In 1996, Uggams played the role of Rose Keefer on All My Children.
Early in 2009, Uggams played Lena Horne in a production of the stage musical Stormy Weather at the Pasadena Playhouse in California.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official Web Site
- Leslie Uggams at the Internet Broadway Database
- Leslie Uggams at the Internet Movie Database
- Leslie Uggams at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Leslie Uggams - Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
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